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Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet (8 November 1748 – 26 August 1819)
of
Moccas Court
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, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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between 1774 and 1807.
Origins
Born George Amyand, he was the eldest son and heir of
Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet
Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (26 September 1720 – 16 August 1766) was a British Whig politician, physician and merchant.
Origins
He was the second son of Claudius Amyand, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George II, by his wife Mary Rabache, a ...
(1720–1766) by his wife Anna Maria Korteen, daughter of John Abraham Korteen, a Hamburg merchant.
In 1766 he succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet and inherited his interest in the banking firm of Amyand, Staples and Mercer.
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Career
Amyand was educated at Eton College
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then at Christ Church, Oxford
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, where he graduated Master of Arts
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in 1769. On 18 July 1771 he married Catherine Cornewall, only daughter and heiress of Velters Cornewall
Velters Cornewall (1697 – 3 April 1768) was an English politician.
He was born in 1697, the second surviving son of Henry Cornewall, and the first with his second wife Susanna. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated ...
of Moccas
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Th ...
in Herefordshire, MP.[ In 1771 he assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Cornewall in lieu of his patronymic, in accordance with the bequest from his father-in-law, an inheritance which included Moccas Park in Herefordshire. In 1773 he received a ]Doctorate of Civil Law
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At Oxford, the degree is a higher ...
from the University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
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Cornewall entered Parliament at the 1774 general election, as ]Member of Parliament
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for Herefordshire
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and held the seat until 1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
. In 1784 he was a member of the St. Alban's Tavern group who tried to bring Fox and Pitt together. He was returned again for Herefordshire in a contest at the 1802 general election and was returned again in 1806
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
. He decided not to face another contest at the 1807 general election. He was volunteer in the Herefordshire Militia
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and became its colonel in 1805.[
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Cornewall was owner of a plantation in Grenada
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, West Indies, and in 1775–81 rebuilt Moccas Court
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The house was built in 1775–81 by t ...
, the family's inherited residence in Herefordshire. He inherited Mouse Castle
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, Cusop
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but exchanged it. In 1800, he sold Frilsham
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Geography
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, Berkshire, which his father had purchased in 1762, to Robert Hayward.
He served as a Family Trustee of the British Museum
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from 1788 until his death.[
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Later years and family
Cornewall died in 1819 and was buried at Moccas. By his wife Catherine, he had two sons and six daughters:[
*Catherine-Frances Cornewall (1773-1826), married Samuel Peploe of Garnstone Castle, ]Weobley
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Formerly a market town, the market is long defunct and the settlement is today promoted as one of the county's black and white villages owing to its abundance of ...
15 March 1796.
*Sir George Cornewall, 3rd Baronet
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(1774–1835), eldest son and heir.
*Hannah Cornewall (died young)
*Anna-Maria Cornewall (1779-1872)
*Frances-Elizabeth Cornewall (1783-1864), married Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
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Bac ...
, 12 December 1805.
*Charles Cornewall (1785-1822).
*Harriet Cornewall (1787-1838), married Thomas Frankland Lewis
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Early life
Lewis was the son of John Lewis and Anne Frankland, daughter of Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet. ...
, 12 January 1805.
*Caroline Cornewall (1789-1875), married Sir William Duff-Gordon, 5 February 1810
Catherine Cornewall's family claimed descent from a younger branch of the de Cornewall family, Barons of Burford, lineally descended from Sir Richard of Cornwall[ (d.1296, slain by an arrow at the Siege of Berwick), a natural son of ]Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
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(1209-1272), (2nd son of King John) by his mistress Joan de Bath. Sir Richard of Cornwall married Joan FitzAlan, daughter of John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel, and by her had three sons and a daughter. His daughter, Joan of Cornwall, married Sir John Howard, from whom the Howard family
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, Dukes of Norfolk
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, are descended.[ Vol. I pp. 574-5; Vol II p 265.] The arms of de Cornwall were: ''Argent, a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or a bordure engrailed sable bezant
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ee'',[ being the arms of ]Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
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with difference
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* ''Differently'' (album), by Cassie Davis, 2009
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a bordure engrailed.
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